Visions of the sky
Subtitle: archaeological and ethnological studies of California Indian astronomy
By: Robert A. Schiffman, editor.
Contributors: Schiffman, Robert A.
Series: Coyote Press archives of California prehistory ;; no. 16; Archives of California prehistory ;; no. 16.
Publisher: Coyote Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Salinas, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Indian astronomy -- California.; Archaeoastronomy -- California.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Robert A. Schiffman; title: The nature of California Indian astronomy / Travis Hudson; title: Sapaksi : archaeoastronomical investigation of an inland Chumash site / Tom Hoskinson and R.M. Cooper; title: Sky games in California petroglyphs / Dorothy Mayer; title: Solar eclipse dating of Chumash rock art / Katherine Bracher; title: The "classical assumption" in light of Chumash astronomy / Travis Hudson; title: Astronomy, myth, and ritual in the west San Fernando Valley / John Romani ... [et al.]; title: CA-KER-17 : a possible Tübatulabal winter solstice observatory / V.J. Harper-Slaboszewicz and R.M. Cooper; title: A Native American solstice observatory / Robert A. Schiffman; title: Ring of pictured stones : astronomical connotations of a rock art site in the eastern Mojave Desert / Beverley S. Trupe, John M. Rafter, and Wilson G. Turner.